Jennifer Lawrence’s life modified in 2014 when hackers stole a trove of the actress’s personal nude pictures and revealed them — together with the personal photographs of a number of different actresses — on the message board 4chan.

“When the hacking factor occurred, it was so unbelievably violating that you may’t even put it into phrases,” Lawrence informed the Hollywood Reporter. “… There’s not one particular person on the earth that isn’t able to seeing these intimate photographs of me. You may simply be at a barbecue and someone can simply pull them up on their cellphone. That was a very inconceivable factor to course of.”

Since then, she’s typically averted taking roles that require intercourse or nude scenes. As she informed W journal, “I’ve all the time been like, ‘Completely no approach’ — particularly after what occurred — ‘no approach am I ever going to do something sexual.’”

However then she learn the script for “Crimson Sparrow,” a film that hits theaters Friday. It options Lawrence as a Russian ballerina attending a form of spy faculty, the place she trains to develop into an intelligence agent who typically makes use of her sexuality to realize her objectives.

The position required a superb little bit of nudity, one thing Lawrence needed to come to phrases with, as she mentioned with Invoice Whitaker on “60 Minutes” on Sunday.

Lawrence’s discomfort round scenes that includes intercourse and nudity is properly documented. Earlier than filming her first actual intercourse scene with Chris Pratt within the 2016 movie “Passengers,” Lawrence bought “actually, actually drunk” to calm her nerves, she has stated. She was uncomfortable as a result of Pratt was married in actual life. It wasn’t an awesome resolution.

The ingesting “led to extra anxiousness once I bought residence as a result of I used to be like, ‘What have I accomplished? I don’t know,’” she stated at a roundtable dialogue hosted by the Hollywood Reporter in 2015. “I knew it was my job, however I couldn’t inform my abdomen that.”

Being drunk for everything of “Crimson Sparrow” wasn’t an choice. So she centered on what bothered her about showing bare on display screen: the truth that the selection to be seen nude had beforehand been taken from her when her personal photographs leaked.

“I learn this script that I’m dying to do, and the one factor that’s getting in my approach is nudity,” Lawrence informed Whitaker. “And I spotted there’s a distinction between consent and never.”

That isn’t to say it was straightforward.

“The night time earlier than, I didn’t sleep in any respect and I used to be clearly actually nervous as a result of it’s the precise nightmare of standing in entrance of a classroom bare,” she informed At this time Australia.

It didn’t assist that in a single scene, freezing water is poured on her naked pores and skin.

“I used to be terrified. I don’t suppose I’ve ever been so petrified of doing a film earlier than in my life. It was lots of firsts for me,” she stated. “Cool, so I’m actually bare getting freezing chilly water poured on me.”

No matter her worry, as she informed Whitaker, “I confirmed up for the primary day, and I did it.”

She stated that she “felt empowered” by filming the nude scenes, as if she’d regained a part of herself.

“I really feel like one thing that was taken from me I bought again and am utilizing in my artwork,” Lawrence stated. “However I did really feel like I took the ability out of getting my physique taken from me. I felt like I took it again, and I may virtually personal it once more.”

“Nudity by alternative is a very completely different factor from being violated,” she informed Whole Movie. “This was my alternative, and it was for my craft. It’s vital to recollect that there’s a distinction.”

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Lawrence was initially anxious about how audiences would react. When she bared her breasts in Vainness Truthful simply weeks after the picture leak, some derided her and known as her hypocritical.

And final week, the actress needed to defend her option to put on a Versace costume with a plunging neckline and thigh-high slit for a photograph shoot in chilly London. She finally determined she simply didn’t care.